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This chapter is talking about a new phase of global interaction. It is interesting because Strayer starts off the chapter with a picture of the earth. This is different then the rest of the chapters because I feel like he is trying to tie this whole book together. I think he is trying to say that everything in life including history is tied and happens on earth and we all have that in common. No matter if you are from Europe, Africa, South America, Mexico, China, and many more places we all have one thing in common, we all live on earth. This is our earth and we need to take care of it the best we can because we only have one. This brings me to my next point when Strayer uses the word "Anthropocene era". what this is talking about is the human era. He talked about environmental movements have been starting since the 1960s to see how us humans are impacting the earth including animals and plants. There are three factors that magnified the human impact on earth's ecological...

This chapter was about the end of the empire. It talked about the Global South on the Global stage from 1914 until present. Nelson Mandela was a South Africa's nationalist leader and believed in standing up to the power of the white domination and tried to free society so all people can live together in harmony and equal opportunity. I find it inspiring that he was prepared to die for what he believed in and he was so passionate about it he spent 27 years in prison. He lived in terrible conditions and was released in 1990. He became the first black African president in 1994 and he linked South Africa to dozens of other countries across Africa and Asia that were thrown off European rule in the second half of the 20th century. I believe that especially in this day with our president equality and harmony is something that might be taken away from us. With the constant ad-vocation of building a wall and the travel ban the president is doing things that in my opinion are setting this wo...

In this chapter it was talking about revolution, socialism, and global conflict. This really hit on the rise and fall of world communism. Communism was a phenomenon of enormous significance in the world of the twentieth century. Karl Marx inspired modern communism and found the political and philosophical roots in the nineteenth century European socialism. By the 1970s almost one-third of the world's population lived in societies governed by the communist regimes. The most significant were the Soviet Union (world's largest country in size), and China (world's largest country in population). The Korean war took place in 1950 and ended in 1953. The U.S.-Vietnam War started in 1965 and ended in 1973. In 1917 the Russian communists came to power on the back of a revolutionary upheaval that happened within a year. This is a picture of Russia in 1917 and also during the first world war. This brought to power the first communist government and launched an international communist m...